Mak Kemenosh is a Venture Capital / Private Equity Talent Evaluator, Startup Founder, Surfer, and longtime Bitcoin Maximalist. Mak originally began investing in Bitcoin back in 2015 and currently keeps 99% of his financial assets in BTC. He has lived coast-to-coast over the past decade and his extensive startup experience has included companies in the logistics, aviation, and financial services industries. ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Intro; Mak’s Pandemic Wedding; Inflation is insane; The government wasn’t great; Omicron looks like a new situation; Mak gives a complex opener for Bitcoin; The dehumanization of people; Bank overdrafts are a scam 24:26 - Generations and Trust Levels; Jack Mallers & the Lightning Network; China and their ban on Bitcoin mining (and how it’s really affected BTC); The difficulty adjustment; Mak explains why Bitcoin is at a crucial point right now; Health + Family = Money 51:31 - What are China’s real motives with BTC?; Julian gives his theory on the Elon Musk Bitcoin Climate Issues from April 2021; Crypto Wallets and protection issues; The Winklevoss Twins’ wallet story from “Bitcoin Billionaires”; Mak suspects Coinbase and other cryptocurrency platforms might have a scandal brewing; What if all Platforms got hacked? 1:11:59 - El Salvador and the Bitcoin Nation State question; Is Nayib Bukele a dictator?; Julian wonders about the enormous pending GAME THEORY psychology among both nations and individuals (re: BTC); Oligopolies; Bitcoin Beef 1:24:34 - Mak gives his theory on the relationship between the Grateful Dead and Bitcoin; People want to be seen; The rise of and greater meaning behind the word “community” in modern culture 1:45:50 - Different belief systems are joining together around specific beliefs right now; Insider trading in Congress is out of control (numbers); Julian talks about a friend’s management consulting investment prohibitions; Allen Iverson was an absolute legend off the court as well 2:07:44 - The Ghislaine Maxwell trial was a Federal Government Marketing Masterclass; Mak wants to party with Hunter Biden; Recounting the timeline behind the Maxwell Guilty Verdict; Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEC) are hilarious; Remembering the legacy of a Hall of Fame War Criminal (Dick Cheney); The WAPO Headline that had Mak and Julian in tears 2:33:21 - How do things play out over the next 1-5 years?; Janet Yellen’s Cue Cards; The weird shift towards individual states; Julian wonders about the simulation of state movements as a greater plan to divide the country; What do the most powerful people have to gain via access to “total power?”; Bill Clinton respects Ariana Grande’s talent; The Chinese Supply Chain conundrum 2:56:08 - Cyber attacks and future lockdowns?; What ever happened with the Las Vegas Shooter (Stephen Paddock)?; The Streisand Effect; The Long Term campaign to win control ~ YouTube EPISODES & CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0A-v_DL-h76F75xik8h03Q  ~ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices